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Exercise status of women three months before childbirth and one month postpartum. It is important that pregnant women engage in proactive and moderate exercise to improve their physical and mental wellbeing.
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Credit: Xu et al., CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Exercise may reduce postpartum depression, with moderate intensity exercises three to four times a week being especially effective, per meta-analysis
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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0287650
Article Title: Effectiveness of aerobic exercise in the prevention and treatment of postpartum depression: Meta-analysis and network meta-analysis
Author Countries: China
Funding: This work was financially supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities in China (Grant no. CUG150607). The funders did not play a role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Article Title
Effectiveness of aerobic exercise in the prevention and treatment of postpartum depression: Meta-analysis and network meta-analysis
Article Publication Date
29-Nov-2023
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